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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  African >> Rest Africa >> Nigerian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Prepare syrup the day before making the koeksisters and chill thoroughly. | 2. Dissolve sugar in water over medium heat. | 3. Add spices and knob of ginger. | 4. Boil together for 10 minutes. | 5. Sift flour, salt and baking powder into a bowl. | 6. Rub in butter finely, add beaten eggs with enough milk to blend into a stiff dough. | 7. Chill dough in refrigerator for 30 minutes. | 8. Roll out to 5 mm (1/4 inch?) thick and cut into strips approximately 70 x 30 mm (3 x 1 inches). | 9. With a sharp knife, cut each strip into 3 smaller ones, leaving them attached at one end. | 10. Plait (braid) loosely and pinch ends to secure. | 11. Drop a few at a time into hot oil. | 12. Cook until lightly-browned and puffed. | 13. Lift out and drain for just 1 minute of crumpled paper towels, then drop at once into chilled syrup. | 14. Soak in syrup, lift out and drain in a sieve until dry. | 15. Note: I'm sure my cousin got a larger yield than this, she made hers very small and dainty. | 16. You can make them the size that suits your needs and aesthetics. | 17. I like them small and dainty, but that's the only way I've ever had them. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
cake flour	500			247970.0	53450.55	5617.0	589.1
salt	2			-	-	-	-
baking powder	20			48.76	25.484	0.0	0.0
butter	125			10687.5	491.0625	333.9375	900.0
egg	2		beaten	143.0	0.72	12.56	9.51
milk				-	-	-	-
oil				-	-	-	-
sugar	750			604485.0	151197.0	0.0	0.0
water	375			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
cinnamon	2			-	-	-	-
clove	4			23.016	5.5045	0.5015	1.092
ginger	2		peeled	3.2	0.7108	0.0728	0.03

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.